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you are doing. Then discuss whether it is possible to send here about a dozen wounded Siberians who have come over to us from Kolchak and are generally unfit for war, but capable of helping here in agitation for war against Kolchak and Denikin.

Lenin

39360

NOTE ON THE TELEGRAM FROM I. V. STALIN*
June 28, 1919

To the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic — for submission to press.

43948

TELEGRAM TO I. V. STALIN
Petrograd, Smolny
June 30, 1919

Ekaterinoslaw has been taken. The situation with ammunition in the south is desperate. In connection with this, having received three million and the Vidlitsky reserves, you must economize on ammunition with all your strength, as well as on other military supplies.

Lenin

Printed from the text of
the telegraph blank,
deciphered by I. V. Stalin.

* In the telegram, Comrade Stalin reported that units of the Red Army, with the support of our Lake Ladoga fleet, by a sudden blow captured the Vidlitsky factory at the border of Finland, seizing in the process rich trophies (see "Bolshevik" No. 2, 1938, p. 71).

YEAR 1919

15233

ON THE ORGANIZATION OF SKI UNITS
(DECREE OF THE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE, JULY 2, 1919)

1. Entrust the organization of ski combat units (separate companies and battalions) from contingents of youth aged 17–18 years to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic, which shall now, through the Chief Administration of Universal Military Training, undertake detailed working out of all organizational questions and develop and put into effect the necessary tables of organization, regulations and instructions, so that training in the ski units being organized shall be begun in the nearest time and such units may be utilized by the Red Army in the nearest winter period.

2. Entrust to the Supreme Council of the National Economy the provision of the newly formed ski units with all types of prescribed supplies and, besides this, with skis in sufficient quantity in accordance with the Chief Administration of Universal Military Training on the basis of the plan for the organization of ski units and the established norms.

Chairman of the Council of Defense
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from the original
signed by V. I. Lenin.

14798

DECREE OF THE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE
JULY 2, 1919*

Transfer the Vyatka battalion of VChK troops numbering not less than 600 men and the 8th Vyatka food army regiment numbering not less than 1,000 men to the formation, in accordance with the decree of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic of June 30 of this year, of two rifle regiments.

Chairman of the Council of Defense
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from the original
signed by V. I. Lenin.

* On the original signed by V. I. Lenin, there is his note "do not print."